Comments on: Flashing Forward to “He’s Our You” (Spoilers Ahead!)

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:56:35 +0000

Wow… Those were some damn good predictions.

By: Michel

Michel — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:45:25 +0000

I don’t buy it. The reason can’t be the harm she has made. Ben has done more harm than her, why doesn’t anybody want him dead? Treason, cons, baby-kidnapping… he had all of that. Besides, where is Aaron now? I can tell you, without a shade of a doubt, taht he is with his grandmother, Ms. Littleton. So, there you go with all the hate.

She’s just lost, and it’s very conflicted about her own desires and the person she wants to be (with). And people are getting frustrated with that because she’s lovely and attractive and want her to end up with somebody… but no, Kate’s flicky. At least she suffers along and doesn’t enjoy it. It’s not like if she’s playing with anybody.

And if she didn’t end up with Jack or Sawyer before it’s because they both treated her VERY WRONG at some point, or didn’t understand where she was coming from, a bad place or not. She’s one of the best characters in these series, and it’s getting all that bad rap only because fanboy eagerness. Too bad.

By: Seabiscuit

Seabiscuit — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:54:11 +0000

Yeah, I hear she tastes like strawberries. :p

By: horselover

horselover — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:38:10 +0000

Sayid watched 3 women he loved die if you count Elsa, Debatable I guess, but he did try to save her by telling her to leave even thought it jeopardized his mission to kill the economist.

By: Ed Einstein

Ed Einstein — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:33:41 +0000

Thank you for confirming that is the actor for Newheart for me. This makes me look forward to the episode tonight even more. That actor will be terrifyingly terrific as a torturer.

By: halfstar4815162342

halfstar4815162342 — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:19:09 +0000

i just want to learn more about the smoke monster. we only saw him in “this place is death”, and i am eager for more. everyone wants to learn about the characters, and where they’ll end up. i want to learn about the island.

By: Beena

Beena — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:03:17 +0000

But 10 minutes would be even better….

By: Beena

Beena — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:02:12 +0000

What Kate said to Locke when he got off the island, about him never having loved anyone before (and I’m not quoting her exactly, here) had me seeing RED! Who is she, that makes her think that she’s an authority on love?Grrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!

Okay. I feel better now!

By: RandomZombie

RandomZombie — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:42:04 +0000

As a fellow writer, I’d call it character development.
A story is nothing without good characters.
I love “Tricia Tanaka is Dead.”

By: The Magician

The Magician — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:58:35 +0000

It was dragged out over the course of an entire episode, so certainly a good deal of it counts as filler.

Being a writer myself, I would say it is more foreshadowing than ‘backstory’.

By: professorstotch

professorstotch — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:52:07 +0000

I agree here. Its not that I HATE her…I’m just tired of her. She’s selfish, and doesn’t care about anyone else but herself 99% of the time. If you look at every other character, they all would stick their neck out to protect some one else, or something. Kate just does what’s best for Kate, and doesn’t care about anyone else. In this way, she hasn’t really evolved at all. Looking back, I don’t really see any evolution in Kate’s character. Everyone else has changed in some way, for better in the case of Sawyer, for worse in the case of Jack, but Kate is the same character she was in season one.

By: Neoloki

Neoloki — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:51:45 +0000

Before Namaste aired quite a few people were very excited for the episode because of the trailers and sneak peaks. I thought Namaste was brilliant, actually, especially for a set-up episode, but I am going to reserve my excitement about tonights episode until after it airs. I am hoping I don’t have to read a bunch of negative comments about tonight’s episode because people thought it was boring or another set-up.

I am looking forward to seeing more of young Ben. I am excited to see how he becomes corrupted and the interaction between him and Sayid should be fairly loaded. However I don’t know how interested I am at this point to see how Sayid made it on the plane. I suppose it is necessary to the overall mythology but I wish that would have been handled back around 316.

By: JaySin420

JaySin420 — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:49:28 +0000

I totally agree that if they don’t show at least one 5 min scene with Locke and Ben tonight I’m going to lose my mind.

By: professorstotch

professorstotch — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:44:20 +0000

1. Pffft. I hope you’re not calling ME a fanboy!

2. And I said tonight will be obviously Sayid centric.

3. At least we can agree on something.

4. Spoiler! Spoooiler alert! Now you just ruined the whole series for me!

By: professorstotch

professorstotch — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:43:02 +0000

I think it’d be Juliet. And that causes little Ben to develop a crush that lasts the rest of his life.

By: Handsome Smitty

Handsome Smitty — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:26:29 +0000

“Sayid-centric.”

Really.

Uh oh, not good news for Sayid. Would they have really released a clip showing him die (on the ground, his eyes staring up at a circling daylight sky?

Well, he’s got TWO good women waiting for him in Heaven. Death is not so bad.

By: Handsome Smitty

Handsome Smitty — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:22:27 +0000

Dude, uh, that tinkering with the van saved some lives.

Not filler, exactly, but what we writers call “backstory.”

By: clueless1der

clueless1der — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:13:08 +0000

Well said. I don’t know if it’s Kate Hate… per se… but she her flaws get annoying.(And the problems they cause!!)Especially season 1-2 Kate to now. Blech! For me though, and I can not make this more clear, EL plays Kate beautifully. We’re supposed to dislike some of her choices and the way she reacts,and she makes that whole character pop off the screen. I just happen to want to smack her back down onto it.

By: RandomZombie

RandomZombie — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:03:40 +0000

I can answer that.
And I in no way mean this as a personal attack against anyone who likes Kate. She’s a well-developed character played by a talented and lovely actress. That being said:

Kate is completely selfish. She does whatever she wants to do with no thought for the feelings or safety of others, including either of the two men that she “loves.”
She insists on tagging along on every expedition, and sneaks after even when she agrees to stay behind. That didn’t work out so well when she was captured by the others and was nearly killed by Tom.

She killed her step-father to “save” her mother, without considering the feelings of her mother, who obviously would have preferred him alive. But this was all an excuse, because she actually killed her step-father because she found out that he was her biological father – and committed patricide with no thoughts for her mother.

She was supposedly in love with Jack, but ran off the only time that they kissed on the island. She led Sawer on, keeping distant unless Jack was unavailable, or with Juliet. Then she’d jump on Sawer for a few nights before distancing herself again. Basically, she led both of them along, jumping back and forth to whichever one wasn’t showing interest in her (but always favoring Jack a little more.)

Her repeated cries of “They’re trying to take my baby,” were extremely selfish. For one, as far as any of the 06 knew, Claire was alive and well on the island – and the one person who should have been able to take care of Aaron off-island, his own grandmother, didn’t even know who he was. He was never Kate’s baby, and she had no right to claim him as her own. (I know, I know, it was necessary for the lie, but that doesn’t change the lack of morals involved.

Sawer sacrificed his freedom to save her, jumping from the helicopter and to what could have been his death. Kate had no interest in going back to the man that she sometimes loved, even when she was told that he was in trouble and could only be helped if they went back.

She’s guilty of what most of the oceanic six was guilty of, turning their backs on their fellow survivors. They got off the island and were content to let the others fend for themselves.

Bottom line: she’s been a troublemaker from the beginning, causing chaos in every situation she’s involved in.
If the powers-that-be see fit to get rid of her, I won’t mourn.

By: boonesghost

boonesghost — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:52:55 +0000

It looks like he’s gonna give Sayid the brown acid.

By: RandomZombie

RandomZombie — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:47:16 +0000

I’m with you on Jack turning his back on his fellow 815ers. I can understand the need for the lie, but to ignore it when Locke told him that they were in trouble – that’s just selfish.

I don’t agree that that’s what Jim was doing to Sayid. Jim came up with a plan that could save Sayid and get him in the Dharma Initiative – which is surely better than being locked in a cage and killed. It was Sayid who refused Jim’s help.

By: JimDD

JimDD — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:45:14 +0000

Why all the Kate hate?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:44:24 +0000

Will the teepee guy’s torture include watching his old reruns of Newheart along with his brother Darrell and his other brother Darrell?

By: clueless1der

clueless1der — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:35:32 +0000

Hey… a few things. One, HAHA you’re such a fanboy. I know you have all that Suliet and Jate fic all bookmarked on your site.

Two…I thought tonight’s was Sayid-centric?

Three- YES. I agree. Locke and Ben have been twiddling their thumbs for two episodes. Move on already!

and Four- HARRY DOES NOT TURN INTO VOLDEMORT!!! Sheesh, people! Quick knocking Harry!

By: jaime

jaime — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:25:34 +0000

Sayid will choose to go rouge. Causes a bunch of trouble at the Barracks (not sure why). We’ll see some flashbacks or is it forwards now considering what year he is in Well we’ll see some more of his off island time spent with Ben as his assassin. He’ll shoot little Ben. Who will try to take are of wounded Ben though? Juliet, Jack???